Three years ago, in December of ’07, the number of jobs in in this country peaked just shy of 138 million. Then the economy fell apart.
By December of ’09, 8 million jobs had disappeared.
For the past year, the economy has been adding jobs — very, very slowly. So slowly, in fact, that the unemployment rate is still near 10 percent.
In all, the economy has added a million jobs in the past year, according to the government employment figures out this morning.
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Author: Jacob Goldstein
